We welcome Assistant Professor Simeon J. Newman to the St. George Department of Sociology. Prior to joining us at the University of Toronto, Dr. Newman held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max-Weber-Institut für Soziologie (Universität Heidelberg) and completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of Michigan. Prof. Newman is a political and comparative-historical sociologist whose research examines theories of political domination, focusing on change over time. Currently, he is working on a book project on the politics in 20th-century Mexico City, where growth in urban population and squatter settlements initially bolstered, and then undermined, the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Prof. Newman’s upcoming work is a comparative study of revolutions.
Professor Newman has published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and Sociological Theory, among other journals. He teaches courses in contemporary theory, capitalism, and revolutions.